The Bilbo Baggins shrimp is one of two new species of ‘hobbit shrimp’ recently described and observed to have a fascinating behavior. The two new hobbit shrimp,Odontonia bagginsiandO. plurellicolaare only found living exclusively in and on large sea squirts!
If that behavior sounds familiar, it was late 2016 when we learned aboutLubricogobius tunicatus, a then-new species of nano goby that also lives exclusively around sea squirts aka tunicates. Interestingly, it wasn’t the reclusive nature of these shrimp which landedOdontonia bagginsiwith its Lord of the Rings inspired name, but instead it was the abundance of hairs this species has on its feet.
霍比特人虾的两个新物种被发现ed in Indonesia and join several other congeners in the genus which are also associated with various species of sea squirts.Odontonia bagginsiandO. plurellicolaZooKeyswere described by de Gier & Fransen in the latest volume of .
